How To Write An Essay On To Kill A Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”(Harper Lee) Harper Lee, a pulitzer award winner, one of the best writers in America once decided to release what would become her masterpiece novel, To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. Although, this book may not be Harper Lee’s autobiography it certainly does make us imagine what her life was like as a child in the south during the 1930s and teaches us what she learned. As we know, the 1930’s in the United States of America would be an important year, not just because of the Great Depression, due to the fact that African Americans were still being mistreated and we’re shown to not mistreat people when they hurt nobody. However, we’re also taught

Moreover, we see a lot of racism in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird against African Americans, and one of the few things that this novel can teach students reading it is to not hurt people because you have no morals or soul if you have to pick on those who cannot protect themselves whether it’s something they can or cannot control about themselves. Additionally, we see Scout apply this teaching when she was about to kill the roly poly, but suddenly Atticus’ valuable words came to her head and she understood that Atticus was not speaking literally about mockingbird but about defenseless

It teaches us that the world is unfair and there’s nothing that we can do about the things we cannot control, but we have to keep living life and keep moving forward. For instance, this is demonstrated after the trial ended, and although Scout at first does not seem to understand why Tom’s death was senseless, later after reflecting she realized that it was senseless and unfair because the verdict was not decided based on what was said but based on the racism in Maycomb. However, we move on in life and do the best we can to live in a world where things like the injustice done to Tom do not